I have been working on Template:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda, and while the first five task forces I have added to the template have been working fine, the last two are not showing up in the required categories needed section, and when I add those two task forces to a page, those two task forces do show up in the parameters, but to not add a category to the page, and do not show the task force label on the template. CROIX (talk) 16:20, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@CROIX: Hi there! There are many redlink categories listed at Template:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda that need to be created. If this doesn't answer your question, then I suggest you ask at Template talk:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda and provide specific examples of the page names and which categories aren't listed as you expect. Hope this helps, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 04:51, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GoingBatty While this did not answer my question, I thank you for helping anyways. However, the template talk at the WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda is largely inactive and not really reviewed by anyone but myself. Are there any other help forums available that I can ask questions at? CROIX (talk) 20:25, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The two missing task forces in this template are these, while the task forces do appear in the template parameters while being inserted, the task forces and associated categories do not show up when the template is inserted into a talk page relating to that task force. An example can be seen at

Freetown, Saint Philip

's talk page.

|tf 6=
{{{saintphilip|}}}
  |TF_6_LINK          = Wikipedia:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda/Saint Philip  |TF_6_NAME          = Parish of Saint Philip task force  |TF_6_IMAGE         =   |TF_6_PORTAL        =   |TF_6_QUALITY       = yes  |tf 6 importance={{{saintphilip-importance|}}}  |TF_6_ASSESSMENT_CAT= Parish of Saint Philip articles  |TF_6_MAIN_CAT      = Parish of Saint Philip task force articles  |TF_6_HOOK = {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/qualimpintersect|class={{{class|}}}|importance={{{saintphilip-importance|}}}|category={{{category|}}}|ASSESSMENT_CAT=Parish of Saint Philip articles|BANNER_NAME=Template:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda|UNASSESSED_APPENDIX=-Class|SUPPRESS_NA=yes}}{{WPBannerMeta/hooks/cats|category={{{category|¬}}}|cat 6={{{needs-image|{{{image-needed|{{{needs-photo|}}}}}}}}}|CAT_6=Wikipedia requested photographs in the Parish of Saint Philip, Antigua and Barbuda}}
|tf 7=
{{{barbuda|}}}
  |TF_7_LINK          = Wikipedia:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda/Barbuda  |TF_7_NAME          = Barbuda task force  |TF_7_IMAGE         =   |TF_7_PORTAL        =   |TF_7_QUALITY       = yes  |tf 7 importance={{{barbuda-importance|}}}  |TF_7_ASSESSMENT_CAT= Barbuda articles  |TF_7_MAIN_CAT      = Barbuda task force articles  |TF_7_HOOK = {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/qualimpintersect|class={{{class|}}}|importance={{{barbuda-importance|}}}|category={{{category|}}}|ASSESSMENT_CAT=Barbuda articles|BANNER_NAME=Template:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda|UNASSESSED_APPENDIX=-Class|SUPPRESS_NA=yes}}{{WPBannerMeta/hooks/cats|category={{{category|¬}}}|cat 7={{{needs-image|{{{image-needed|{{{needs-photo|}}}}}}}}}|CAT_7=Wikipedia requested photographs in Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda}}

CROIX (talk) 20:29, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Freetown, Saint Philip, but don't see any issues in the template code. If you don't receive an answer from another editor here, you could try Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates. GoingBatty (talk) 14:08, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Template:WPBannerMeta § Task forces → WPBannerMeta can accommodate up to five task forces...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Trappist the monk However, more than five task forces can be added through the use of hooks (Template:WPBannerMeta § Task forces), this template uses hooks. Have the hooks not been used properly? CROIX (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Must not be ... {{WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda}} passes a variety of parameters including |TF_6_HOOK= and |TF_7_HOOK= with their assigned values to {{WPBannerMeta}}. In {{WPBannerMeta}} there is no reference to {{{TF_6_HOOK}}} or {{{TF_7_HOOK}}} so those parameters and their assigned values will be ignored by {{WPBannerMeta}}. The 'hook' documentation, like most template documentation, is woefully inadequate and I'm not all that interested in figuring out what it means or how it works. You might ask the editors who have contributed significantly to {{WPBannerMeta}} and {{WPBannerMeta/hooks}}. If you figure it out, improve the documentation.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good evening. Is there a specific reason why the Italian language Wikipedia page on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart) is so much longer? Mozart is one of the most influential figures in all of music history, it seems strange to me that in the world's best Wikipedia (i.e. this one, en.wiki), the page has far fewer bytes of writing. JackkBrown (talk) 19:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JackkBrown: Nobody has chosen to expand it. Wikipedia is crowdsourced by volunteers whose work is loosely co-ordinated at best, with each volunteer doing whatever work they wish to do. Feel free to work on the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart article. -Arch dude (talk) 20:03, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JackkBrown: Note also that a number of headings in our Mozart article are followed by "See also" and "Main article" lines, indicating that some aspects of Mozart's life are treated in separate articles here (perhaps because of splitting from the main article). I haven't looked at both articles in detail, but it could be that the Italian WP discusses everything about M.'s life in one article, whereas we do it in multiple articles. Deor (talk) 23:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to provide a picture of Elias Constantine. I am his daughter, Aurelia Constantine. How can I go about doing that? Thanks. Cricketgirl868 (talk) 21:21, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

consent that Wikipedia needs to be able to host the file. In this case, the more information you can provided about the provenance of the photo, the easier it will be for someone to try and help you sort things out. If the photo is currently available somewhere online, then providing a link to the url address where it can be seen would also be helpful since whoever else is using it may have provided some informtation about its provenance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:40, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@Cricketgirl868: The advice above is entirely correct, but let me insist on one thing regarding copyright: if you don’t know who took the photo, it’s probably not ok.

Yes, even if it’s a very old photo. Copyright is full of specific details but in many instances it expires 70 years after the death of the photographer (not after the photograph was taken). You don’t know who the photographer is? Too bad, unless your jurisdiction has a specific provision for orphan works.

If you think that’s crazy long, well, I agree, but you should take that with your local politician and ask them to change copyright law. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 11:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can somebody move this page back to the mainspace? It was originally in the mainspace until User:Onel5969 moved it as a draft. The team actually starts play today, so it has relevance..

Roberto221 (talk) 21:51, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Los Angeles FC 2.   Roberto221, did you read the "declined" notice at the top of the draft? Maproom (talk) 22:33, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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Hello, Roberto221. In order for

independent

.

It is quite likely that suitable sources do not yet exist, i.e. it is

TOOSOON

.

As for when they are starting play: There is no deadline in Wikipedia. ColinFine (talk) 22:33, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was not sure if Wikipedia along with many other wonderful sources of information would be able to help me contact a very renowned physician in POSADAS MI SSIONES ARGENTINA. HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE PLASTIC SURGICAL SOCIETY OF LATIN AMERICA...HEIS EXPERTISE WAS BURN PATIENTS WHICH VERY FEW SURGEONS HAVE EXPERTISE IN. I MET HIM MANY YEARS AGO AND HE WAS A VERY KIND BENEVOLENT PHYSICIAN WHO WAS CALLED IN TO HELP PATIENTS IN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS I LIVED IN NEW YORK AT THE INTERESTED AND HE WAS THERE SO OFEN AS WELL MANY OTER PLACES THROUT THE WORLD. WE WERE VERY GOOD FRIENDS HE WOULD STAY WITH MY FAMILY WHEN HE WAS HERE.I ALSO KNOW A PATIENT THAT I WANTEDI TO SPEAK TO HIM ABOUT. AGAIN HIS NAME.. DR LEON BUCHUK in POSADAS MISS MARY ELLEN SEEKAMP (talk) 22:48, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

MARY ELLEN SEEKAMP Please turn your caps lock off when posting, it is seen as yelling. We can't help you with contacting an article subject or other individual, sorry. 331dot (talk) 22:50, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is no article in English Wikipedia about, or mentioning, this person. A websearch found only one result, which was a location and address entered on a map service called vymaps.com, which unfortunately is blacklisted by Wikipedia so I cannot post a link to it. If you websearch on "Leon Buchak surgeon" (or doctor, or Dr) you may find it, or you could search on the map service yourself.

Since this information is published (and you could have found it yourself) I see no reason not to give it to you, on the understanding that Wikipedia's reasons for blacklisting it may include malware on it: we'll see if other editors here disagree and remove it. I have no idea whether the map location and address is still current (perhaps it's old and the Doctor has moved, or retired, or died), but you could at minimum write to the address given, and perhaps use it to help find further information.

Please also note that this Helpdesk, as it states at the top of the page, is intended only for help in editing Wikipedia. In future, please post factual queries not about Wikipedia on one of the

WP:Reference desks. Hope this helps. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.205.101.197 (talk) 04:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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A curiosity: how come the articles in this encyclopaedia (which I consider the best version in the world) tend to be less long than those in Italian, but have more sources? JackkBrown (talk) 23:07, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

JackkBrown. Because that is the way that the volunteer editors in the English Wikipedia (and the Italian Wikipedia) have freely chosen to write and reference the articles. There is no formal coordination whatsoever between the two projects. Cullen328 (talk) 23:54, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you asking this question multiple times? See #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart above where you were told the same thing. Star Mississippi 00:40, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It depends which pages you compare. Special:Statistics currently says Content pages 6,635,398, and Words in all content pages 4,325,192,319. The average is 4,325,192,319 / 6,635,398 = 652 words per content page. it:Special:Statistics gives 884 546 844 / 1 804 067 = 490. If you try to compare specific articles then there may be differences in how much related material has been placed in other articles. Wikipedia:Wikipedia records#Languages says: "Language with the highest percentage of featured articles: Italian Wikipedia (3.7%)." But each language decides its own featured article criteria and processes so it's hard to compare. Many languages don't even use the concept. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:04, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Each Wikipedia project has its own policies and guidelines, and has its own community enforcing them. This is one reason that articles found on other language Wikipedia's aren't automatically considered OK to be translated into English for English Wikipedia as explained

article's page history to see if any major expansions made to the article ended up being subsequently reverted. You can also start a discussion about this on the article's talk page and see with others familiar with the subject matter might have to say. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:37, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply

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@JackkBrown Another possibility is that things might be describable in fewer words in English than in some other languages. I have noticed this just by reading the back of a can of air freshener sold in the US (Glade, or Lysol, for instance). There are instructions and warnings in a couple of languages, and they say the same thing, but the English takes fewer (and shorter) words. A friend who translates English into French, as a job, says this happens between English and several other languages. Apparently, translators call this phenomenon "translation bloom". I predict that in the Wikipedia articles, the words aren't exactly the same, but English might be more concise than Italian. Just a thought. David10244 (talk) 07:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

English is one of, if not the, largest languages in terms of vocabulary. As David10244 indicates, many other languages have to use phrases where English uses a word. Consider potatoes = "pommes de terre" (lit: apples of the ground) or railway = "chemin de fer" (lit: horse road of iron). Also note that the French uses "horse road OF iron" whereas the English equivalent is "iron horse road", one word less. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 08:19, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not really important here, but "chemin de fer" translates literally as "path/road of iron", not "horse of iron". "Horse" is "cheval". Random person no 362478479 (talk) Random person no 362478479 (talk) 08:50, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, good catch. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:38, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Chemin de fer" is the correct translation of "railroad". However, I immediately understood "cheval de fer" (horse of iron) to mean "locomotive". It might be because of this film, I am not sure that it is all that common. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 12:22, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly it.wp prefers to consolidate pages where en.wp prefers to rely on links to smaller pages? —Tamfang (talk) 22:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]